Sunday, March 5, 2006

Favorite Flix
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Favorite Flix is a traveling exhibition of works by artists from the Society of Illustrators, including many artists with ties to Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The artists all had the same, open-ended assignment -- to illustrate a scene from their favorite movie -- but tackled the project in a variety of ways using various media. From Shine to The Shining, Frankenstein to Frida, the 62 illustrations appeal to a diverse group of moviegoers and art lovers.

Maysles Films: Christo & Jeanne Claude
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Maysles began filming the environmental art installations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the early 1970s. The films concentrate on the preparation, installation and realization of each project. Domenico Iacono, associate director of the Syracuse University Art Collection, states that the films have become "lasting documents of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's temporary artwork ...[and] effectively present the scale of these projects or the movement of the fabrics as they are impacted by wind, rain and other environmental factors." Featured works include Surrounded Islands, in which the artists covered 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with bright pink fabric, as well as the installation of an 18-foot high wall which stretched for over 24 miles of northern California countryside, entitled Running Fence. Valley Curtain, Umbrellas and The Pont Neuf Wrapped will also be included in the exhibition.

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956-1959
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956 - 1959 presents 39 black-and-white photographs documenting contemporary life at the time of the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A graduate from Syracuse University with a degree in psychology, Maysles gained a tourist visa in 1955 to enter the Soviet Union. He began creating his photo-documentary with images from mental hospitals. His camera often focused on children throughout his travels, as well as travelers asleep in public places. Maysles thought of himself as an observer and believed a camera had the freedom to capture lives without the cultural and personal prejudices of the 1950s.

The Perils of Pauline
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $5
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

In this classic serial, Pauline (Pearl White) evades attempts on her life. She fights pirates, Indians, gypsies, rats, sharks, and her dastardly guardian. Her most familiar plight is being tied to railroad tracks with a rapidly approaching train. (1914, 75 min, all ages)

Manos: The Hands of Fate
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $5
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Classic low budget horror about a family getting lost and stumbling upon a hidden, underground, devil-worshiping cult led by the fearsome Master and his servant Torgo. (1966, 74 min, ages 13 and above)

Pawns of Paradise: Inside the Brutal Kashmir Conflict and Dying to Live: A Migrant's Journey
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $5
Palace Theater Ballroom
2384 James St., Syracuse

Pawns of Paradise: Inside the Brutal Kashmir Conflict
Flashpoint Kashmir. Could the unthinkable happen tomorrow? India and Pakistan -- both nuke-ready heavyweights -- lay fierce claim to the territory. Journalist Zoltan Istvan is traveling alone in the region -- trying to capture the story of the 12 million Kashmiris who forge their lives in a land beset by 50 years of war and terrorism. (2006, 55 min)

Dying to Live: A Migrant's Journey
Immigration is a complex issue that is changing the face of cultures worldwide. In the United States it is often controversial with many social, economic, political and even religious implications. Dying to Live brings out the human face of the migrant and the face of Christ in the migrant. (2005, 33 min)

Recommended ages 13 and above.

The Animation Show Year 2
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $6
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The Animation Show is an international collection of the world's best animated short films, programmed by co-producers Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt. Featuring Hertzfeldt's "The Meaning of Life" and Bill Plympton's "Guard Dog" (2005, 89 min, ages 13 and above)

Bon Appetit and Keeping up with the Jonesers
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $5
Palace Theater Ballroom
2384 James St., Syracuse

Bon Appetit
With choice wine and fine dining, Sherman and the rest of this five-star wait staff have to be ready for anything. However, nothing could have prepared them for tonight's special order. (2006, 25 min)

Keeping up with the Jonesers
An average MBA student gives up his minimum wage job installing low flow toilets for a more lucrative career in the post 80's cocaine trade. (2006, 25 min)

Recommended ages 17 and above.

The Resurrection Apprentice and The Last Eve
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $5
Palace Theater Ballroom
2384 James St., Syracuse

The Resurrection Apprentice
This atmospheric period short depicts a young boy's initiation into the world of 'resurrection men" grave robbers. A moody ode to early Hammer films and the harshness of existence. (2005, 12 min)

The Last Eve
In a way never before seen. The story of Eve is shown from front to back. We start in the future and ride all the way back to the loss of all innocence. Our journey through time shows us three contrasting tales (Cain & Abel, Snake's Temptation, Eve's Secret) which in their own unique way reveal the dark tragedies at the heart of all romance. (2005, 88 min)

Recommended ages 13 and above.

Treading Water and Film Geek
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $6
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Treading Water
Out of time and out of money, five low budget film makers try to make ends meet by offing the writer. Directed by Nia Peeples (actress from "Fame" & "General Hospital"). (2005, 26 min)

Film Geek
Film Geek is the story of Scotty Pelk, a socially inept video store clerk who gets fired from his job and becomes a sensation as an online film critic. (2005, 78 min)

Recommended ages 17 and above.

A Kiss on the Nose and Plan 9 from Outer Space
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $5
Palace Theater Ballroom
2384 James St., Syracuse

A Kiss on the Nose
A difficult father-daughter relationship told from the daughter's quirky point-of-view. (2004, 14 min)

Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space
Aliens resurrect dead humans as zombies and vampires to stop human kind from creating the Solaranite (a sort of sun-driven bomb). (1959, 79 min)

Recommended for all ages.

The Walking Ink, The Adventure of Earthboy and Stargirl and Cyxork 7
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $5
Palace Theater Ballroom
2384 James St., Syracuse

The Walking Ink
The Walking Ink is the story of a man who gains the power of persuasion over people, animals, machines, and the laws of physics after nearly dying from ingesting a strange pepper created by a mad scientist. (2005, 8 min)

The Adventure of Earthboy and Stargirl
Earthboy is lonely at work during the biggest meteor shower in years. What is on his mind? Stargirl! The shooting star of his dreams. (2006, 8 min)

Cyxork 7
A young filmmaker and a bankrupt action hero shoot "Cyxork 7", latest sequel of a faltering sci-fi series, during a predicted cataclysmic earthquake, hoping to grab Hollywood's attention. Stars Ray Wise ("Good Night, Good Luck"; "Jeepers Creepers 2") (2005, 93 min)

Recommended ages 13 and above.

Sorum
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $6
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

A 30 year old mystery resurfaces and takes over the lives of the people living in an eerie apartment complex. Directed by Syracuse University graduate Jong-chan Yun. (2001, 100 min, ages 17 and above)

Rory O'Shea Was Here
Redhouse

Price: $7 regular; $5 with student ID
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

From the producers of Bridget Jones's Diary and Billy Elliot comes Rory O'Shea Was Here - an inspiring story of independence that follows two unlikely friends determined to face the world on their own terms. The winner of the Audience Award at the 2004 Edinburgh International Film Festival, Rory O'Shea Was Here is an extraordinary story of determination that fuses highly emotional drama with bracingly boisterous humor. Inspired by the experiences of real people, the film follows two young men with physical disabilities as they band together and seize an opportunity to savor life on their own terms.

All his life, Michael Connolly has lived in the residential care of Dublin's Carrigmore Home for the Disabled. Michael has cerebral palsy, uses a motorized wheelchair, and has significant speech impairment. Most people find it difficult to make out what he is saying, and simply stop trying. But Rory O'Shea, a new arrival at Carrigmore, is not like most people -- or any of the other Carrigmore residents. Rory is able to understand Michael. Rory has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a degenerative muscle-wasting condition. All Rory has are the use of two of his fingers, partial movements of his head -- and unlimited use of his mouth.

These two young men form a friendship that empowers them to look beyond Carrigmore and its inflexible supervisor Eileen. After the rebellious and outspoken Rory masterminds a field trip to pub and nightclub, Michael is emboldened and motivated to finesse an appeal to Ability Ireland for a personal-assistance grant. His appeal is successful, enabling the two friends to move into a flat of their own and recruit the disarming Siobhan to assist them with their daily needs. Rory and Michael both develop growing feelings for Siobhan, and their rivalry for her attention only further accelerates their shared journey towards true independence and liberation.

Rated R for language; English; 104 minutes; 2005

The Hills Have Eyes
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $8
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack. (1977, 100 min, ages 17 and above)

A Terrorist Ate My Brain and Triple Bill
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $5
Palace Theater Ballroom
2384 James St., Syracuse

FART
Fartcimus is an orphan fart who lives in a dumpster. He plays the guitar and hopes that one day, he'll find his real birth parents. (2005, 18 min)

A Terrorist Ate My Brain
A deadly song transmitted through Ipods is turning New York City into brain eating zombies. While President Bush hides from Osama Bin Ladin, Zeek, a Manhattan bike messenger, and Niki, his cute bike mechanic, do battle against the army of zombies in a race against time to save America. (2005, 17 min)

Triple Bill
Join an arrogant, big shot producer as he patiently listens to three hopeful screenwriters pitch their ideas for the silver screen. We hear Hugh Carter's dramatic comedy when a nice meal is interrupted by a slightly lost assassin. Jessica Edge tells the story of velocity girl Sarah and her quest to overcome a painful memory. Finally we listen to the tale of a lost ferry pilot and the air traffic controller who works to bring him home. (2005, 70 min)

Recommended ages 17 and above.

The Hills Have Eyes
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: Free
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

See it before it hits theaters nationwide!
NOTE: This is a FREE screening, but weekend pass holders, Sunday pass holders and patrons for the 9pm original Hills Have Eyes showing will get priority seating. Then, if any space is left, the rest of the public will be admitted. As the Sunday 9pm showing is likely to sell-out, we advise that you buy your weekend, day or Sunday 9pm tickets ASAP to assure yourself a seat to this event. A suburban American Family is being stalked by a group of psychotic people who live in the desert, far away from civilization. (2006, ages 17 and above)

A Muslim Woman Speaks Out: Current Issues and Misconceptions
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Magda Bayoumi

Price: $10 regular, $5 with student ID
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Arts Alive in Liverpool
The Jazz Police
Featuring Jeff Stockham

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

Music from the Be-Bop era

The Boy With No Name
Encore Presentations
Tony Brown, conductor

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors, $8 LeMoyne students and faculty
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

The story of a mentally challenged boy and his family. Mature themes. For more information, phone 315-952-4228.

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From Glen to Glen: Music of Ireland
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Robert Cowles, conductor

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors
St. Patrick's Church
216 N. Lowell Ave., Tipperary Hill, Syracuse

SVE presents a celebration of Irish music, old and new. The program will include original compositions as well as beautiful arrangements of much-loved traditional Irish folk ballads. The concert will also feature a newly-commissioned work by Irish composing sensation Michael McGlynn. Appearing with SVE on the program will be Syracuse area Irish Fiddler David Deacon, who will play a variety of traditional selections. Join them for this tuneful, all-things-Irish experience.

Organ Recital
Featuring Christopher Marks

Price: Free-will offering
Jordan United Methodist Church
63 Elbridge St., Jordan

Works of John Ireland, Dudley Buck, William Bolcom, Marcel Dupre, Seth Bingham, and Felix Borowski.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Symphony Orchestra
James Tapia, conductor
Featuring Kenneth Meyer, guitar

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The SUSO will perform under the direction of conductor James Tapia, director of orchestral studies and associate professor of music in the Setnor School of Music in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. Graduate student James Welsch will serve as guest conductor. Selections include works by Jacob Gade, Tchaikovsky and Franz Schubert.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

Kevin Moore in Concert

Price: Donation
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Columbus Circle, Syracuse

Pianist Kevin Moore presents and all-Chopin recital to benefit the programs and services of Vera House. For more information, phone 315-425-0818, ext. 212.

Odd Couple: The Female Version
Onondaga Hillplayers
Marna Connelly, director

Price: $36 includes dinner, theater, tax and gratuity
Inn of the Seasons
4311 W. Seneca Tpke., Syracuse

For reservations, phone 315-492-1221 or 315-492-4001. Credit cards not accepted.

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Shakespeare's R&J
Black Box Players
Rodney Hudson, director

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Syracuse University Drama Department will present Shakespeare's R&J, Joe Calarco's all-male adaptation of Shakespeare's most famous love story.

Unlike the traditional Renaissance setting of the tale, Shakespeare's R&J moves the action to modern day, when four students at an all-boys parochial school discover a forbidden copy of Romeo and Juliet. Eager for distraction from reciting their Latin verb conjugations, the boys soon begin performing the play. At first timid in exploring the passionate tale among their teenaged peers, the boys eventually lose their inhibitions and embody the story's characters with a palpable understanding of adolescent love - and lust.

Assistant Director Leslie Noble points out that the all-male cast of R&J relates directly to Romeo and Juliet's beginnings on the stage. "The Elizabethan idea of men playing all the roles coupled with the prep school setting was very compelling and set forth a series of meaty questions," Noble said. "How would the circumstances of their youth and upbringing - the military strictness, the rigid gender roles, the sexual repression, the adolescent innocence - affect the performance of Romeo and Juliet? And how would the act of performing this classic love story affect the boys? What a compelling staging challenge to tell both stories at once!"

To reserve tickets, phone 315-443-2102. The Black Box Theatre has a policy of open seating on a first come, first served basis.

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West Side Story
Skaneateles High School Drama Program

Price: $9 regular, $7 students/seniors
Skaneateles High School
49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles

For more information, phone 315-291-2296.

Molly Sweeney
Redhouse

Price: $33 regular; $26 senior (65 or older); $22 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This breathtakingly beautiful drama explores the story of one woman's journey from blindness to the seeing world. As the play unfolds from three strikingly different points of view, Brian Friel proves once again why he is considered Ireland's greatest living playwright.

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Cats
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Price: $24 regular; $20 students/seniors; $16 children
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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Intimate Apparel
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A century ago, playwright Lynn Nottage's grandmother made her way in New York by sewing intimate undergarments for wealthy white socialites and women whose socializing tended more to the mercenary. From this thread of family history, Nottage weaves the appealing and touching drama of Esther Mills, a 35-year-old African-American seamstress and spinster whose search for love leads her to chance romance with George, a young Barbadian working on the Panama Canal. This play is a lovely slice of a New York gone by peopled with rich characters, endearing friendships, and true to life relationships.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Syracuse University Drama Department
Lisa Anne Porter, director

Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"The course of true love never did run smooth," but who knew it could be quite so chaotic? Certainly not the straight-laced, would-be lovers who flee to the woods where fairies (mis)rule, rude mechanicals play and order is certainly not the order of the day or night. One of the Bard's most beloved comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's most delirious and comic look at love. Set in Athens, the main plot revolves around two sets of couples, Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius. Their entrance into the play's enchanted woods complicates the couples' romantic entanglements when they meet a band of fairies, including impish Puck, not to mention Bottom the weaver and his "rude mechanicals," who stumble into the action when they go into the same magical woods to rehearse a play that is very loosely (and comically) based on the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe. A Midsummer Night's Dream is an exploration of themes of love, dreams, and the creative imagination.

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Moon Over Buffalo
Theatre '90

Price: $19 regular, $16 students/seniors, $12 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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God's Trombones
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $15 advance, $18 at door, $12 seniors with ID and groups of 20 or more, $5 for college students with ID and children 12 and under
South Presbyterian Church
Corner of W. Colvin and S. Salina Streets, Syracuse

God's Trombones, by James Weldon Johnson, is a spectacular compilation of seven Negro sermons in verse. Under the creative direction of William H. Rowland, Jackie Warren Moore, and Annette Adams-Brown this production will be a magnificent mixture of oration, song, dance and music. Local ministers from around the community will recite the opening prayer called Listen, Lord - A Prayer. Choral Director Lagreer Cummings will lead a mass Choir, made up of church choral members from across the Syracuse community, that will fill the sanctuary with joyous gospel songs, while prominent actors from the SU campus and Syracuse community engage and delight your senses with the remaining sermons; The Creation, The Prodigal Son, Go Down Death - A Funeral Sermon, Noah Built the Ark, The Crucifixion, Let my People Go, and Judgment Day through recitation, dramatization, narration and storytelling. The play will run approximately 1-1/2 hours.

Intimate Apparel
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A century ago, playwright Lynn Nottage's grandmother made her way in New York by sewing intimate undergarments for wealthy white socialites and women whose socializing tended more to the mercenary. From this thread of family history, Nottage weaves the appealing and touching drama of Esther Mills, a 35-year-old African-American seamstress and spinster whose search for love leads her to chance romance with George, a young Barbadian working on the Panama Canal. This play is a lovely slice of a New York gone by peopled with rich characters, endearing friendships, and true to life relationships.

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Monday, March 6, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Winter's End: Works of Donal and Shel Little

Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

New art work by popular Syracuse artists Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio. The exhibit will include a piece created especially in honor of St Patrick's Day.

Women Artists Invitational Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

[Fake] Fake Estates: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of recent work by Martin Hogue, assistant professor of architecture at SU. Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing Queens, NY for residual properties similar to the 14 parcels purchased there and documented by Matta-Clark in 1975. Best known for his spatially dynamic extractions of large sections of walls and floors from abandoned buildings, Matta-Clark, one of the most important American conceptual artists of the 1970s, purchased the Queens properties with the goal of highlighting neglected architectural environments that make up the urban and suburban fabric.

Hogue's exhibition includes drawings, collages and photographs that articulate moments when conventions for establishing the location and precise boundaries of a site produce a conceptual "excess of surveying," inviting speculation as to the value and purpose of land and revealing the conceptual potential of "real" sites, even small and unusable ones -- a 1/8-inch x 110-foot property, among others -- thought to lack architectural potential.

For more information, phone 315-443-2388 or email mcobrien@syr.edu.

Paid public parking is available on West Fayette Street, one block from the building.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Magical Secrets
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Kathan Brown

Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Syracuse University Printmaking Program is proud to present the founder and director of Crown Point Press. In this lecture, Kathan Brown draws on her experiences with 16 prominent contemporary artists, from Richard Diebenkorn to Shahzia Sikander, who have made prints at San Francisco's legendary Crown Point Press. Brown distills 44 years of direct working involvement with leading artists to reveal 13 Magical Secrets that will suggest creative solutions for artists working in any medium -- and for anyone seeking to master the art of life. Sophisticated and yet straightforwardly explained, the Magical Secrets help us to understand fundamental strategies such as how to creatively use the physicality of materials or how an artist may enter a mental state that encourages creative connections. At once authoritative and inspiring, Magical Secrets offers a deeper understanding of the creative impulses in us all.

Songwriter's Night with Emcee Doug Moncrief
Redhouse

Price: $5
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Monday molldrums? Love lyrics? The Redhouse is the place to be the first Monday of each month as emcee Doug Moncrief hosts songwriters taking their turn at the mic performing original music.

Tuesday, March 7, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Winter's End: Works of Donal and Shel Little

Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

New art work by popular Syracuse artists Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio. The exhibit will include a piece created especially in honor of St Patrick's Day.

Women Artists Invitational Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

[Fake] Fake Estates: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of recent work by Martin Hogue, assistant professor of architecture at SU. Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing Queens, NY for residual properties similar to the 14 parcels purchased there and documented by Matta-Clark in 1975. Best known for his spatially dynamic extractions of large sections of walls and floors from abandoned buildings, Matta-Clark, one of the most important American conceptual artists of the 1970s, purchased the Queens properties with the goal of highlighting neglected architectural environments that make up the urban and suburban fabric.

Hogue's exhibition includes drawings, collages and photographs that articulate moments when conventions for establishing the location and precise boundaries of a site produce a conceptual "excess of surveying," inviting speculation as to the value and purpose of land and revealing the conceptual potential of "real" sites, even small and unusable ones -- a 1/8-inch x 110-foot property, among others -- thought to lack architectural potential.

For more information, phone 315-443-2388 or email mcobrien@syr.edu.

Paid public parking is available on West Fayette Street, one block from the building.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956-1959
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956 - 1959 presents 39 black-and-white photographs documenting contemporary life at the time of the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A graduate from Syracuse University with a degree in psychology, Maysles gained a tourist visa in 1955 to enter the Soviet Union. He began creating his photo-documentary with images from mental hospitals. His camera often focused on children throughout his travels, as well as travelers asleep in public places. Maysles thought of himself as an observer and believed a camera had the freedom to capture lives without the cultural and personal prejudices of the 1950s.

Maysles Films: Christo & Jeanne Claude
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Maysles began filming the environmental art installations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the early 1970s. The films concentrate on the preparation, installation and realization of each project. Domenico Iacono, associate director of the Syracuse University Art Collection, states that the films have become "lasting documents of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's temporary artwork ...[and] effectively present the scale of these projects or the movement of the fabrics as they are impacted by wind, rain and other environmental factors." Featured works include Surrounded Islands, in which the artists covered 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with bright pink fabric, as well as the installation of an 18-foot high wall which stretched for over 24 miles of northern California countryside, entitled Running Fence. Valley Curtain, Umbrellas and The Pont Neuf Wrapped will also be included in the exhibition.

Favorite Flix
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Favorite Flix is a traveling exhibition of works by artists from the Society of Illustrators, including many artists with ties to Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The artists all had the same, open-ended assignment -- to illustrate a scene from their favorite movie -- but tackled the project in a variety of ways using various media. From Shine to The Shining, Frankenstein to Frida, the 62 illustrations appeal to a diverse group of moviegoers and art lovers.

Rory O'Shea Was Here
Redhouse

Price: $7 regular; $5 with student ID
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

From the producers of Bridget Jones's Diary and Billy Elliot comes Rory O'Shea Was Here - an inspiring story of independence that follows two unlikely friends determined to face the world on their own terms. The winner of the Audience Award at the 2004 Edinburgh International Film Festival, Rory O'Shea Was Here is an extraordinary story of determination that fuses highly emotional drama with bracingly boisterous humor. Inspired by the experiences of real people, the film follows two young men with physical disabilities as they band together and seize an opportunity to savor life on their own terms.

All his life, Michael Connolly has lived in the residential care of Dublin's Carrigmore Home for the Disabled. Michael has cerebral palsy, uses a motorized wheelchair, and has significant speech impairment. Most people find it difficult to make out what he is saying, and simply stop trying. But Rory O'Shea, a new arrival at Carrigmore, is not like most people -- or any of the other Carrigmore residents. Rory is able to understand Michael. Rory has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a degenerative muscle-wasting condition. All Rory has are the use of two of his fingers, partial movements of his head -- and unlimited use of his mouth.

These two young men form a friendship that empowers them to look beyond Carrigmore and its inflexible supervisor Eileen. After the rebellious and outspoken Rory masterminds a field trip to pub and nightclub, Michael is emboldened and motivated to finesse an appeal to Ability Ireland for a personal-assistance grant. His appeal is successful, enabling the two friends to move into a flat of their own and recruit the disarming Siobhan to assist them with their daily needs. Rory and Michael both develop growing feelings for Siobhan, and their rivalry for her attention only further accelerates their shared journey towards true independence and liberation.

Rated R for language; English; 104 minutes; 2005

Life Lessons: The Art of Jerome Witkin
Featuring Sherry Chayat and Jerome Witkin

Price: Free
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Syracuse University Press has released the second edition of author Sherry Chayat's Life Lessons: The Art of Jerome Witkin, a volume on the work of contemporary realist painter Jerome Witkin, professor of painting in the School of Art and Design in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. This will be a public discussion with the artist and author, including a slide presentation and book signing.

Witkin's art deals with moral issues that have both personal and social significance. His most complex and critically acclaimed works - dark, intense and often disturbing scenes of the Holocaust - have earned him a growing international audience and are often regarded as belonging to an artistic pantheon that includes the works of Lucien Freud, Manet, Ingres, Goya and Courbet. Witkin's work can be found in the permanent collections of major art museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art located in Washington, D.C.; and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.

Chayat, award-winning art critic, author and an adjunct professor at SU's University College, brings readers into intimate contact with Witkin's works of the dense, interior landscapes of people and life. She explores Witkin's paintings on a number of levels, providing interpretations of the works based as much on his life and private journal notes as on formal description. Life Lessons is intended for art historians, artists and scholars of contemporary realist art and Holocaust studies.

For information on the discussion and book signing or to obtain review copies of the book, contact Lisa Kuerbis at SU Press at 315-443-5547 or lkuerbis@syr.edu.

Paid parking is available in SU pay lots.

Henry Petroski
University Lectures

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. He has written on many aspects of engineering and technology, including design, success and failure, and the history of engineering and technology. His books on these subjects, which are intended for professional engineers and general readers alike, include To Engineer Is Human, which was adapted for a BBC-television documentary, and Design Paradigms, which was named by the Association of American Publishers as the best general engineering book published in 1994. His Engineers of Dreams is a history of American bridge building. He has also written books on commonplace objects, including The Pencil, The Evolution of Useful Things, The Book on the Bookshelf, and Small Things Considered, and has published collections of essays on engineering subjects under the titles Remaking the World and Pushing the Limits. A memoir about delivering newspapers in the 1950s and about what predisposed him to become an engineer is entitled Paperboy. His books have been widely translated, into such languages as Chinese, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, and Turkish.

No Idle Hands
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular, $12 students and seniors
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Bright Sheng Tibetan Dance, 2001
Frank Stagnitta When there is peace..., 2006
Ed Marcus Wind Quintet, 2005
Jay Anthony Gach Idle Hands are the Devil's Workshop, 2005

Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Winter's End: Works of Donal and Shel Little

Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

New art work by popular Syracuse artists Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio. The exhibit will include a piece created especially in honor of St Patrick's Day.

Women Artists Invitational Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

[Fake] Fake Estates: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of recent work by Martin Hogue, assistant professor of architecture at SU. Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing Queens, NY for residual properties similar to the 14 parcels purchased there and documented by Matta-Clark in 1975. Best known for his spatially dynamic extractions of large sections of walls and floors from abandoned buildings, Matta-Clark, one of the most important American conceptual artists of the 1970s, purchased the Queens properties with the goal of highlighting neglected architectural environments that make up the urban and suburban fabric.

Hogue's exhibition includes drawings, collages and photographs that articulate moments when conventions for establishing the location and precise boundaries of a site produce a conceptual "excess of surveying," inviting speculation as to the value and purpose of land and revealing the conceptual potential of "real" sites, even small and unusable ones -- a 1/8-inch x 110-foot property, among others -- thought to lack architectural potential.

For more information, phone 315-443-2388 or email mcobrien@syr.edu.

Paid public parking is available on West Fayette Street, one block from the building.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Maysles Films: Christo & Jeanne Claude
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Maysles began filming the environmental art installations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the early 1970s. The films concentrate on the preparation, installation and realization of each project. Domenico Iacono, associate director of the Syracuse University Art Collection, states that the films have become "lasting documents of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's temporary artwork ...[and] effectively present the scale of these projects or the movement of the fabrics as they are impacted by wind, rain and other environmental factors." Featured works include Surrounded Islands, in which the artists covered 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with bright pink fabric, as well as the installation of an 18-foot high wall which stretched for over 24 miles of northern California countryside, entitled Running Fence. Valley Curtain, Umbrellas and The Pont Neuf Wrapped will also be included in the exhibition.

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956-1959
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956 - 1959 presents 39 black-and-white photographs documenting contemporary life at the time of the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A graduate from Syracuse University with a degree in psychology, Maysles gained a tourist visa in 1955 to enter the Soviet Union. He began creating his photo-documentary with images from mental hospitals. His camera often focused on children throughout his travels, as well as travelers asleep in public places. Maysles thought of himself as an observer and believed a camera had the freedom to capture lives without the cultural and personal prejudices of the 1950s.

Favorite Flix
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Favorite Flix is a traveling exhibition of works by artists from the Society of Illustrators, including many artists with ties to Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The artists all had the same, open-ended assignment -- to illustrate a scene from their favorite movie -- but tackled the project in a variety of ways using various media. From Shine to The Shining, Frankenstein to Frida, the 62 illustrations appeal to a diverse group of moviegoers and art lovers.

Israeli Film Night
Syracuse International Film Festival

Jewish Community Center
5655 Thompson Rd., Dewitt

Join SIFVF Artistic Director Owen Shapiro for a discussion of award-winning Israeli films.

Literal is More
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Mark Linder, associate professor of architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

At SU, Mark Linder teaches theory and design and is the chair of the graduate program. He received degrees in architecture from the University of Virginia (B.S.), Yale (M. Arch., M.E.D.) and Princeton (Ph. D). He taught previously at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois-Chicago, Rice University, the Rhode Island School of Design and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He also maintains a design practice as a principal in CLear.

His book Nothing Less than Literal: Architecture After Minimalism (MIT, 2004) examines transdisciplinary exchanges between art and architectural criticism -- and the resulting "confusion" of formalist techniques and discourses -- in the debates surrounding minimal art.

Linder has lectured throughout the United States and has participated in numerous symposia and conferences, including a recent seminar at the Illinois Institute of Technology celebrating Mies van der Rohe and the renovated Crown Hall.

For information on public parking at The Warehouse, phone 315-443-8238.

Civic Morning Musicals
Paul Burgay, piano

Price: Free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Music of Chopin and Infante.

A Tribute to Harriet Tubman
Onondaga Community College
Featuring Quraysh Ali Lansana, author and poet

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Chicago author and poet Quraysh Ali Lansana pays tribute to Harriet Tubman with poems from his second collection, They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems. Lansana is author of Southside Rain; co-editor, Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art (Third World Press, 2004, 2000, and 2002, respectively).

Molly Sweeney
Redhouse

Price: $33 regular; $26 senior (65 or older); $22 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This breathtakingly beautiful drama explores the story of one woman's journey from blindness to the seeing world. As the play unfolds from three strikingly different points of view, Brian Friel proves once again why he is considered Ireland's greatest living playwright.

Read a review!

Intimate Apparel
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A century ago, playwright Lynn Nottage's grandmother made her way in New York by sewing intimate undergarments for wealthy white socialites and women whose socializing tended more to the mercenary. From this thread of family history, Nottage weaves the appealing and touching drama of Esther Mills, a 35-year-old African-American seamstress and spinster whose search for love leads her to chance romance with George, a young Barbadian working on the Panama Canal. This play is a lovely slice of a New York gone by peopled with rich characters, endearing friendships, and true to life relationships.

Read a Review!

Intimate Apparel
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A century ago, playwright Lynn Nottage's grandmother made her way in New York by sewing intimate undergarments for wealthy white socialites and women whose socializing tended more to the mercenary. From this thread of family history, Nottage weaves the appealing and touching drama of Esther Mills, a 35-year-old African-American seamstress and spinster whose search for love leads her to chance romance with George, a young Barbadian working on the Panama Canal. This play is a lovely slice of a New York gone by peopled with rich characters, endearing friendships, and true to life relationships.

Read a Review!

Thursday, March 9, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Winter's End: Works of Donal and Shel Little

Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

New art work by popular Syracuse artists Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio. The exhibit will include a piece created especially in honor of St Patrick's Day.

Women Artists Invitational Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

[Fake] Fake Estates: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of recent work by Martin Hogue, assistant professor of architecture at SU. Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing Queens, NY for residual properties similar to the 14 parcels purchased there and documented by Matta-Clark in 1975. Best known for his spatially dynamic extractions of large sections of walls and floors from abandoned buildings, Matta-Clark, one of the most important American conceptual artists of the 1970s, purchased the Queens properties with the goal of highlighting neglected architectural environments that make up the urban and suburban fabric.

Hogue's exhibition includes drawings, collages and photographs that articulate moments when conventions for establishing the location and precise boundaries of a site produce a conceptual "excess of surveying," inviting speculation as to the value and purpose of land and revealing the conceptual potential of "real" sites, even small and unusable ones -- a 1/8-inch x 110-foot property, among others -- thought to lack architectural potential.

For more information, phone 315-443-2388 or email mcobrien@syr.edu.

Paid public parking is available on West Fayette Street, one block from the building.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956-1959
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956 - 1959 presents 39 black-and-white photographs documenting contemporary life at the time of the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A graduate from Syracuse University with a degree in psychology, Maysles gained a tourist visa in 1955 to enter the Soviet Union. He began creating his photo-documentary with images from mental hospitals. His camera often focused on children throughout his travels, as well as travelers asleep in public places. Maysles thought of himself as an observer and believed a camera had the freedom to capture lives without the cultural and personal prejudices of the 1950s.

Maysles Films: Christo & Jeanne Claude
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Maysles began filming the environmental art installations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the early 1970s. The films concentrate on the preparation, installation and realization of each project. Domenico Iacono, associate director of the Syracuse University Art Collection, states that the films have become "lasting documents of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's temporary artwork ...[and] effectively present the scale of these projects or the movement of the fabrics as they are impacted by wind, rain and other environmental factors." Featured works include Surrounded Islands, in which the artists covered 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with bright pink fabric, as well as the installation of an 18-foot high wall which stretched for over 24 miles of northern California countryside, entitled Running Fence. Valley Curtain, Umbrellas and The Pont Neuf Wrapped will also be included in the exhibition.

Favorite Flix
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Favorite Flix is a traveling exhibition of works by artists from the Society of Illustrators, including many artists with ties to Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The artists all had the same, open-ended assignment -- to illustrate a scene from their favorite movie -- but tackled the project in a variety of ways using various media. From Shine to The Shining, Frankenstein to Frida, the 62 illustrations appeal to a diverse group of moviegoers and art lovers.

Claire Harootunian Retrospective: Sculpture and Collage Art
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Come join in the magic of the art works of Claire Harootunian, alumnus and former Syracuse University adjunct professor A consummate hunter, gatherer and collector, Ms. Harootunian is constantly reinventing and reinvigorating new life into "found" objects and materials. Claire Harootunian begins with the possibilities of the material, whether she is layering fine, delicate papers and fabrics or welding heavy steel and bronze she delights in the creative process. Her joy in creating, no matter the medium, is apparent in all she touches.

Different Strokes
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Jane Crow: acrylics
Vincent Fitches: mixed media paintings
Cheyne Rood: pen and inks
Members of the Central New York Art Guild: varied works

Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture by Jeffrey Schwarz and Eunjung Shin
ThINC

Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

Opening reception at 7:00 pm.

What I Want My Words to Do to You
Onondaga Community College
Reel World: Documentaries with a Difference film series

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A rare and intimate look inside a women's maximum security facility in upstate New York, this film goes inside playwright and international women's rights activist Eve Ensler's writing workshop series at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Open discussion to follow.

What I Want My Words to Do to You
Onondaga Community College
Reel World: Documentaries with a Difference film series

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A rare and intimate look inside a women's maximum security facility in upstate New York, this film goes inside playwright and international women's rights activist Eve Ensler's writing workshop series at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Open discussion to follow.

Spring 2006 Concert Tour
Geneseo Chamber Singers

Price: Free
Ramsdell Elementary School
9 Chappell St., Jordan

For more information, visit chambers.geneseo.edu.

Festival of Bands
West Genesee Symphonic Band; West Genesee Wind Ensemble
Featuring Frank Campos, trumpet

Price: Free
West Genesee High School
5201 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-487-4612.

Celtic Women in Concert

Price: $22.50 to $47.50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Four vocalists and a fiddler.

The Strange Case of Sheik Yerbuti
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $25.95 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive comedy/thriller.

Les Miserables

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

For more information, phone 315-692-1916.

Beauty and the Beast
Jamesville-Dewitt High School

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-443-3024.

Intimate Apparel
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A century ago, playwright Lynn Nottage's grandmother made her way in New York by sewing intimate undergarments for wealthy white socialites and women whose socializing tended more to the mercenary. From this thread of family history, Nottage weaves the appealing and touching drama of Esther Mills, a 35-year-old African-American seamstress and spinster whose search for love leads her to chance romance with George, a young Barbadian working on the Panama Canal. This play is a lovely slice of a New York gone by peopled with rich characters, endearing friendships, and true to life relationships.

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Molly Sweeney
Redhouse

Price: $33 regular; $26 senior (65 or older); $22 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This breathtakingly beautiful drama explores the story of one woman's journey from blindness to the seeing world. As the play unfolds from three strikingly different points of view, Brian Friel proves once again why he is considered Ireland's greatest living playwright.

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Friday, March 10, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #55: Artists Create Artists
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit highlights the work of Central New York's art teachers and their students.

Winter's End: Works of Donal and Shel Little

Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

New art work by popular Syracuse artists Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio. The exhibit will include a piece created especially in honor of St Patrick's Day.

Women Artists Invitational Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

[Fake] Fake Estates: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of recent work by Martin Hogue, assistant professor of architecture at SU. Hogue spent several months systematically canvassing Queens, NY for residual properties similar to the 14 parcels purchased there and documented by Matta-Clark in 1975. Best known for his spatially dynamic extractions of large sections of walls and floors from abandoned buildings, Matta-Clark, one of the most important American conceptual artists of the 1970s, purchased the Queens properties with the goal of highlighting neglected architectural environments that make up the urban and suburban fabric.

Hogue's exhibition includes drawings, collages and photographs that articulate moments when conventions for establishing the location and precise boundaries of a site produce a conceptual "excess of surveying," inviting speculation as to the value and purpose of land and revealing the conceptual potential of "real" sites, even small and unusable ones -- a 1/8-inch x 110-foot property, among others -- thought to lack architectural potential.

For more information, phone 315-443-2388 or email mcobrien@syr.edu.

Paid public parking is available on West Fayette Street, one block from the building.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Maysles Films: Christo & Jeanne Claude
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Maysles began filming the environmental art installations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the early 1970s. The films concentrate on the preparation, installation and realization of each project. Domenico Iacono, associate director of the Syracuse University Art Collection, states that the films have become "lasting documents of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's temporary artwork ...[and] effectively present the scale of these projects or the movement of the fabrics as they are impacted by wind, rain and other environmental factors." Featured works include Surrounded Islands, in which the artists covered 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with bright pink fabric, as well as the installation of an 18-foot high wall which stretched for over 24 miles of northern California countryside, entitled Running Fence. Valley Curtain, Umbrellas and The Pont Neuf Wrapped will also be included in the exhibition.

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956-1959
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956 - 1959 presents 39 black-and-white photographs documenting contemporary life at the time of the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A graduate from Syracuse University with a degree in psychology, Maysles gained a tourist visa in 1955 to enter the Soviet Union. He began creating his photo-documentary with images from mental hospitals. His camera often focused on children throughout his travels, as well as travelers asleep in public places. Maysles thought of himself as an observer and believed a camera had the freedom to capture lives without the cultural and personal prejudices of the 1950s.

Favorite Flix
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Favorite Flix is a traveling exhibition of works by artists from the Society of Illustrators, including many artists with ties to Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The artists all had the same, open-ended assignment -- to illustrate a scene from their favorite movie -- but tackled the project in a variety of ways using various media. From Shine to The Shining, Frankenstein to Frida, the 62 illustrations appeal to a diverse group of moviegoers and art lovers.

Claire Harootunian Retrospective: Sculpture and Collage Art
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Come join in the magic of the art works of Claire Harootunian, alumnus and former Syracuse University adjunct professor A consummate hunter, gatherer and collector, Ms. Harootunian is constantly reinventing and reinvigorating new life into "found" objects and materials. Claire Harootunian begins with the possibilities of the material, whether she is layering fine, delicate papers and fabrics or welding heavy steel and bronze she delights in the creative process. Her joy in creating, no matter the medium, is apparent in all she touches.

Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture by Jeffrey Schwarz and Eunjung Shin
ThINC

Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

Different Strokes
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Jane Crow: acrylics
Vincent Fitches: mixed media paintings
Cheyne Rood: pen and inks
Members of the Central New York Art Guild: varied works

Megan Ehrhart: Revisited
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Send in the clowns; an anomalous carnival is soon coming to town in the work of multi-media artist Megan Ehrhart in her first solo exhibition at the gallery.

Dare if you will to enter the mind of the chronic insomniac where vintage toys, food, and curious circus sideshow characters come to life. Inside fabricated walls, cold unmoving porcelain faces move in a delightfully stiff and uncomfortable manner. Clowns are silent tour guides while creatures of stitched leather observe and entertain. In this installation of sculpture and film, Freud and Castaneda meet Svankmajer and Carroll as the artist skillfully mixes eerie with the innocent.

Using highly detailed hand constructed sets, the artist creates small private worlds for herself, literally compartmentalizing issues locked in her psychology. Rediscovering her childhood memories, the films Lucid Lunch, Audition, Decoding Repression and My Room, touch on her personal philosophies of lucid dreaming, cannibalism, coming of age and feminism.

Megan Ehrhart is an MFA candidate in film at Syracuse University where she currently teaches animation workshops. She earned a BFA with honors in illustration from the Maryland Institute, College of Art where she taught 3D animation as an undergrad. Besides exhibiting work in commercials, physical and online galleries, Megan worked at two animation companies, self-produced a 10-minute stop-motion commission, and her psychological theories on lucid dreaming and chronic insomnia will soon printed in multiple international publications. Recently she also received a creative grant to help fund the production of a documentary on ex-performer wild animals now in sanctuary.

Music with a Sense of Humor
Onondaga Community College
Society for New Music

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Works include Stephen Hartke The Horse with the Lavender Eye, 1997 and Darius Milhaud Suite.

The Boy With No Name
Encore Presentations
Tony Brown, conductor

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors, $8 LeMoyne students and faculty
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

The story of a mentally challenged boy and his family. Mature themes. For more information, phone 315-952-4228.

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H.M.S. Pinafore
Syracuse Opera

Price: $15 - $136
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Wildly popular in Britian during the late eighteenth century, this Gilbert and Sullivan operetta is a frivolous romp centered around love between members of different social classes. The opera takes place portside, involving scheming lovers and humorous plotlines. Familiar songs such as "He is an Englishman" are featured. Colorful characters like Dick Deadeye and Ralph Rackstraw further enhance the comedy. And watch out for Little Buttercup, who harbors a long-kept secret that's sure to rock the boat.

Back by popular demand following his virtuostic portrayal of Major General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance is baritone James Billings as Sir Joseph Porter. He is reunited with Pirates director Anthony Salatino. If you loved Pirates, you are sure to love H.M.S. Pinafore.

Sung in English with projected words.

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Odd Couple: The Female Version
Onondaga Hillplayers
Marna Connelly, director

Price: $36 includes dinner, theater, tax and gratuity
Inn of the Seasons
4311 W. Seneca Tpke., Syracuse

For reservations, phone 315-492-1221 or 315-492-4001. Credit cards not accepted.

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God's Trombones
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $15 advance, $18 at door, $12 seniors with ID and groups of 20 or more, $5 for college students with ID and children 12 and under
South Presbyterian Church
Corner of W. Colvin and S. Salina Streets, Syracuse

God's Trombones, by James Weldon Johnson, is a spectacular compilation of seven Negro sermons in verse. Under the creative direction of William H. Rowland, Jackie Warren Moore, and Annette Adams-Brown this production will be a magnificent mixture of oration, song, dance and music. Local ministers from around the community will recite the opening prayer called Listen, Lord - A Prayer. Choral Director Lagreer Cummings will lead a mass Choir, made up of church choral members from across the Syracuse community, that will fill the sanctuary with joyous gospel songs, while prominent actors from the SU campus and Syracuse community engage and delight your senses with the remaining sermons; The Creation, The Prodigal Son, Go Down Death - A Funeral Sermon, Noah Built the Ark, The Crucifixion, Let my People Go, and Judgment Day through recitation, dramatization, narration and storytelling. The play will run approximately 1-1/2 hours.

Moon Over Buffalo
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

Price: $15 adults, $12 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Beauty and the Beast
Jamesville-Dewitt High School

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-443-3024.

Les Miserables

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

For more information, phone 315-692-1916.

Moon Over Buffalo
Theatre '90

Price: $19 regular, $16 students/seniors, $12 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Ragtime
Meadowbrook Harlequin Players

Price: $7 regular, $6 seniors/children under 12
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-435-4380.

Molly Sweeney
Redhouse

Price: $33 regular; $26 senior (65 or older); $22 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This breathtakingly beautiful drama explores the story of one woman's journey from blindness to the seeing world. As the play unfolds from three strikingly different points of view, Brian Friel proves once again why he is considered Ireland's greatest living playwright.

Read a review!

Intimate Apparel
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A century ago, playwright Lynn Nottage's grandmother made her way in New York by sewing intimate undergarments for wealthy white socialites and women whose socializing tended more to the mercenary. From this thread of family history, Nottage weaves the appealing and touching drama of Esther Mills, a 35-year-old African-American seamstress and spinster whose search for love leads her to chance romance with George, a young Barbadian working on the Panama Canal. This play is a lovely slice of a New York gone by peopled with rich characters, endearing friendships, and true to life relationships.

Read a Review!

Saturday, March 11, 2006

Winter's End: Works of Donal and Shel Little

Hazard Branch Library
1620 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

New art work by popular Syracuse artists Donal and Shel Little of LittlePath Studio. The exhibit will include a piece created especially in honor of St Patrick's Day.

Different Strokes
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Jane Crow: acrylics
Vincent Fitches: mixed media paintings
Cheyne Rood: pen and inks
Members of the Central New York Art Guild: varied works

Only an Artist: Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American Studio Potter
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Only an Artist features approximately 80 porcelains by Adelaide Alsop Robineau (1865-1929). These exquisite works are drawn largely from the unparalleled collection of her ceramics held by the Everson Museum of Art, with additional key works from other public and private collections. Beginning with Robineau's early experiments dating from 1904 to 1910, Only an Artist offers a selection of both the matte and crystalline glazes Robineau developed during this crucial period. A unique focus of Only an Artist is the representation of almost thirty works from the last three years of Robineau's life.

Only an Artist: Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American Studio Potter is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue containing three essays: by the exhibition's guest curator, Thomas Piché Jr.; noted Art Pottery scholar Ellen Paul Denker; and Syracuse University Professor Elizabeth Fowler.

Sara Sax's Rookwood Repertoire
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During its 80-year history, Rookwood Pottery's artists formed and painted ceramics in such diverse styles as Victorian, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts and Art Deco. Sara Sax (1870-1949) was one of Rookwood's premier artists, painting vases, tiles and jars for this celebrated company from 1896 through 1931. This exhibition of Sax's work is generously on loan to the Everson from a private Massachusetts collection.

Works of Daniel Atyim
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For the Everson's 2004 Biennial exhibition, juror Pavel Zoubok selected Daniel Atyim's mixed-media works for the Best of Show Award. For this prize, the Everson will showcase Atyim's work in a solo exhibition and gallery brochure.

Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Requiem for Our Ancestors and Other Warriors: Works by Napoleon Jones-Henderson" will feature recent works in a variety of media. Jones-Henderson has exhibited extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of the founding members of the AfriCOBRA collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in the late 1960's as a group of visual, performing, and literary artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Henderson is also a noted teacher, consultant and lecturer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Research Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc. in Roxbury, MA. He has studied at The Sorbonne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and Maryland Institute College of Art.

I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"I, Witness: A Marjory Wilkins Retrospective" will feature photographs taken by Wilkins through the years. Wilkins began taking photographs at age 10 and acquired her first camera at age 12 Since that time, she has documented several decades of local history and culture, focusing in particular on Syracuse's African American community. She says, "I feel that you view the world a little differently through a camera. It just makes life more interesting." Her lifelong passion for photography has been an inspiration to many, including her family members. "All my children are very aware of their surroundings because of the camera. They all take pictures," she says. Her son is a professional photographer with the Chicago Tribune. Wilkins adds, "I wish all children could have access to a camera of some sort, just to view the world a little differently." The exhibition will feature the people, places and events that have helped shape the local community through the years, as seen through the lens of one of Syracuse's most prolific photographers.

Favorite Flix
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Favorite Flix is a traveling exhibition of works by artists from the Society of Illustrators, including many artists with ties to Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The artists all had the same, open-ended assignment -- to illustrate a scene from their favorite movie -- but tackled the project in a variety of ways using various media. From Shine to The Shining, Frankenstein to Frida, the 62 illustrations appeal to a diverse group of moviegoers and art lovers.

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956-1959
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Albert Maysles Photographs: 1956 - 1959 presents 39 black-and-white photographs documenting contemporary life at the time of the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A graduate from Syracuse University with a degree in psychology, Maysles gained a tourist visa in 1955 to enter the Soviet Union. He began creating his photo-documentary with images from mental hospitals. His camera often focused on children throughout his travels, as well as travelers asleep in public places. Maysles thought of himself as an observer and believed a camera had the freedom to capture lives without the cultural and personal prejudices of the 1950s.

Maysles Films: Christo & Jeanne Claude
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Maysles began filming the environmental art installations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the early 1970s. The films concentrate on the preparation, installation and realization of each project. Domenico Iacono, associate director of the Syracuse University Art Collection, states that the films have become "lasting documents of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's temporary artwork ...[and] effectively present the scale of these projects or the movement of the fabrics as they are impacted by wind, rain and other environmental factors." Featured works include Surrounded Islands, in which the artists covered 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with bright pink fabric, as well as the installation of an 18-foot high wall which stretched for over 24 miles of northern California countryside, entitled Running Fence. Valley Curtain, Umbrellas and The Pont Neuf Wrapped will also be included in the exhibition.

Claire Harootunian Retrospective: Sculpture and Collage Art
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Come join in the magic of the art works of Claire Harootunian, alumnus and former Syracuse University adjunct professor A consummate hunter, gatherer and collector, Ms. Harootunian is constantly reinventing and reinvigorating new life into "found" objects and materials. Claire Harootunian begins with the possibilities of the material, whether she is layering fine, delicate papers and fabrics or welding heavy steel and bronze she delights in the creative process. Her joy in creating, no matter the medium, is apparent in all she touches.

Daniel Atyim Gallery Talk
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Daniel Atyim, winner of the 2004 Everson Biennial Double Take, will present a gallery talk for his solo exhibition which will be on view at the Everson from March 11 through May 28.

The Boy With No Name
Encore Presentations
Tony Brown, conductor

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors, $8 LeMoyne students and faculty
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

The story of a mentally challenged boy and his family. Mature themes. For more information, phone 315-952-4228.

Read a review!

Folkus Project
Full Frontal Folk

Price: $12
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

With "Gen-X" attitude and solid folk music sensibilities, Full Frontal Folk is guaranteed to knock your socks off! Combining the talents of Fatale Frontal (Wendy Fuhr), Lolita Frontal (Jennifer Schonwald), and Delilah Frontal (Courtney Malley) results in a full sensory experience. Each is an individually accomplished musician and singer in her own right, but as a band they are combustible. They combine "Gen-X" attitude, a fun sense of personal style, and off-the-wall sense of humor to create an easily enjoyed spin on the folk music genre.

The band shares a love of traditional, old-timey, and bluegrass music, as well as contemporary singer-songwriter, pop, and punk. Like their musical influences, they want to push the envelope and bring elements of all genres to their repertoire. Not surprisingly, they succeed with sensitivity and attention to detail. Contemporary songs made famous by the Eagles or Bad Religion may quickly follow traditional songs, like "Catie Cruel" or "Blood and Gold." All songs are delivered with beautiful vocal arrangements, which are at times polished, quirky, haunting, or poignant. Their instrumentationincluding 6- and 12-string guitars, bass, fiddle, mandolin, and percussionnever takes away from their powerful voices.

Full Frontal Folk is currently completing a set of performances that are the last they have booked for the foreseeable future. See them while you still can!

For reservations, phone the Westcott Community Center at 315-478-8634.

The Secret of the Puppet's Book
Open Hand Theater

Price: $9 adults; $6 children (members get $1 off)
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Open Hand Theater's delightful puppetry celebration of books and reading is a joyful performance for the whole family.

Hercules, the Maiden and the Lion
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $5
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive family show.

Beauty and the Beast
Jamesville-Dewitt High School

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-443-3024.

Intimate Apparel
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A century ago, playwright Lynn Nottage's grandmother made her way in New York by sewing intimate undergarments for wealthy white socialites and women whose socializing tended more to the mercenary. From this thread of family history, Nottage weaves the appealing and touching drama of Esther Mills, a 35-year-old African-American seamstress and spinster whose search for love leads her to chance romance with George, a young Barbadian working on the Panama Canal. This play is a lovely slice of a New York gone by peopled with rich characters, endearing friendships, and true to life relationships.

Read a Review!

Odd Couple: The Female Version
Onondaga Hillplayers
Marna Connelly, director

Price: $36 includes dinner, theater, tax and gratuity
Inn of the Seasons
4311 W. Seneca Tpke., Syracuse

For reservations, phone 315-492-1221 or 315-492-4001. Credit cards not accepted.

Read a review!

God's Trombones
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $15 advance, $18 at door, $12 seniors with ID and groups of 20 or more, $5 for college students with ID and children 12 and under
South Presbyterian Church
Corner of W. Colvin and S. Salina Streets, Syracuse

God's Trombones, by James Weldon Johnson, is a spectacular compilation of seven Negro sermons in verse. Under the creative direction of William H. Rowland, Jackie Warren Moore, and Annette Adams-Brown this production will be a magnificent mixture of oration, song, dance and music. Local ministers from around the community will recite the opening prayer called Listen, Lord - A Prayer. Choral Director Lagreer Cummings will lead a mass Choir, made up of church choral members from across the Syracuse community, that will fill the sanctuary with joyous gospel songs, while prominent actors from the SU campus and Syracuse community engage and delight your senses with the remaining sermons; The Creation, The Prodigal Son, Go Down Death - A Funeral Sermon, Noah Built the Ark, The Crucifixion, Let my People Go, and Judgment Day through recitation, dramatization, narration and storytelling. The play will run approximately 1-1/2 hours.

Cats
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Price: $24 regular; $20 students/seniors; $16 children
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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Moon Over Buffalo
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

Price: $15 adults, $12 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Les Miserables

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

For more information, phone 315-692-1916.

Moon Over Buffalo
Theatre '90

Price: $19 regular, $16 students/seniors, $12 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Read a Review!

Beauty and the Beast
Jamesville-Dewitt High School

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-443-3024.

Ragtime
Meadowbrook Harlequin Players

Price: $7 regular, $6 seniors/children under 12
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-435-4380.

Molly Sweeney
Redhouse

Price: $33 regular; $26 senior (65 or older); $22 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This breathtakingly beautiful drama explores the story of one woman's journey from blindness to the seeing world. As the play unfolds from three strikingly different points of view, Brian Friel proves once again why he is considered Ireland's greatest living playwright.

Read a review!

Intimate Apparel
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A century ago, playwright Lynn Nottage's grandmother made her way in New York by sewing intimate undergarments for wealthy white socialites and women whose socializing tended more to the mercenary. From this thread of family history, Nottage weaves the appealing and touching drama of Esther Mills, a 35-year-old African-American seamstress and spinster whose search for love leads her to chance romance with George, a young Barbadian working on the Panama Canal. This play is a lovely slice of a New York gone by peopled with rich characters, endearing friendships, and true to life relationships.

Read a Review!

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Only an Artist: Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American Studio Potter
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Only an Artist features approximately 80 porcelains by Adelaide Alsop Robineau (1865-1929). These exquisite works are drawn largely from the unparalleled collection of her ceramics held by the Everson Museum of Art, with additional key works from other public and private collections. Beginning with Robineau's early experiments dating from 1904 to 1910, Only an Artist offers a selection of both the matte and crystalline glazes Robineau developed during this crucial period. A unique focus of Only an Artist is the representation of almost thirty works from the last three years of Robineau's life.

Only an Artist: Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American Studio Potter is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue containing three essays: by the exhibition's guest curator, Thomas Piché Jr.; noted Art Pottery scholar Ellen Paul Denker; and Syracuse University Professor Elizabeth Fowler.

Works of Daniel Atyim
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For the Everson's 2004 Biennial exhibition, juror Pavel Zoubok selected Daniel Atyim's mixed-media works for the Best of Show Award. For this prize, the Everson will showcase Atyim's work in a solo exhibition and gallery brochure.

Sara Sax's Rookwood Repertoire
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During its 80-year history, Rookwood Pottery's artists formed and painted ceramics in such diverse styles as Victorian, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts and Art Deco. Sara Sax (1870-1949) was one of Rookwood's premier artists, painting vases, tiles and jars for this celebrated company from 1896 through 1931. This exhibition of Sax's work is generously on loan to the Everson from a private Massachusetts collection.

Rory O'Shea Was Here
Redhouse

Price: $7 regular; $5 with student ID
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

From the producers of Bridget Jones's Diary and Billy Elliot comes Rory O'Shea Was Here - an inspiring story of independence that follows two unlikely friends determined to face the world on their own terms. The winner of the Audience Award at the 2004 Edinburgh International Film Festival, Rory O'Shea Was Here is an extraordinary story of determination that fuses highly emotional drama with bracingly boisterous humor. Inspired by the experiences of real people, the film follows two young men with physical disabilities as they band together and seize an opportunity to savor life on their own terms.

All his life, Michael Connolly has lived in the residential care of Dublin's Carrigmore Home for the Disabled. Michael has cerebral palsy, uses a motorized wheelchair, and has significant speech impairment. Most people find it difficult to make out what he is saying, and simply stop trying. But Rory O'Shea, a new arrival at Carrigmore, is not like most people -- or any of the other Carrigmore residents. Rory is able to understand Michael. Rory has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a degenerative muscle-wasting condition. All Rory has are the use of two of his fingers, partial movements of his head -- and unlimited use of his mouth.

These two young men form a friendship that empowers them to look beyond Carrigmore and its inflexible supervisor Eileen. After the rebellious and outspoken Rory masterminds a field trip to pub and nightclub, Michael is emboldened and motivated to finesse an appeal to Ability Ireland for a personal-assistance grant. His appeal is successful, enabling the two friends to move into a flat of their own and recruit the disarming Siobhan to assist them with their daily needs. Rory and Michael both develop growing feelings for Siobhan, and their rivalry for her attention only further accelerates their shared journey towards true independence and liberation.

Rated R for language; English; 104 minutes; 2005

The Boy With No Name
Encore Presentations
Tony Brown, conductor

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors, $8 LeMoyne students and faculty
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

The story of a mentally challenged boy and his family. Mature themes. For more information, phone 315-952-4228.

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Spring Concert: Celebrate Mozart
MasterWorks Chorale
Maureen McCauley, conductor

St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Mozart's Missa Brevis in F, K 192 and Vesperae Solonnes Confessore, K. 339

H.M.S. Pinafore
Syracuse Opera

Price: $15 - $136
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Wildly popular in Britian during the late eighteenth century, this Gilbert and Sullivan operetta is a frivolous romp centered around love between members of different social classes. The opera takes place portside, involving scheming lovers and humorous plotlines. Familiar songs such as "He is an Englishman" are featured. Colorful characters like Dick Deadeye and Ralph Rackstraw further enhance the comedy. And watch out for Little Buttercup, who harbors a long-kept secret that's sure to rock the boat.

Back by popular demand following his virtuostic portrayal of Major General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance is baritone James Billings as Sir Joseph Porter. He is reunited with Pirates director Anthony Salatino. If you loved Pirates, you are sure to love H.M.S. Pinafore.

Sung in English with projected words.

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Odd Couple: The Female Version
Onondaga Hillplayers
Marna Connelly, director

Price: $36 includes dinner, theater, tax and gratuity
Inn of the Seasons
4311 W. Seneca Tpke., Syracuse

For reservations, phone 315-492-1221 or 315-492-4001. Credit cards not accepted.

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Moon Over Buffalo
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

Price: $15 regular, $12 students/seniors
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Ragtime
Meadowbrook Harlequin Players

Price: $7 regular, $6 seniors/children under 12
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-435-4380.

Molly Sweeney
Redhouse

Price: $33 regular; $26 senior (65 or older); $22 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This breathtakingly beautiful drama explores the story of one woman's journey from blindness to the seeing world. As the play unfolds from three strikingly different points of view, Brian Friel proves once again why he is considered Ireland's greatest living playwright.

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Cats
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Price: $24 regular; $20 students/seniors; $16 children
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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Intimate Apparel
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A century ago, playwright Lynn Nottage's grandmother made her way in New York by sewing intimate undergarments for wealthy white socialites and women whose socializing tended more to the mercenary. From this thread of family history, Nottage weaves the appealing and touching drama of Esther Mills, a 35-year-old African-American seamstress and spinster whose search for love leads her to chance romance with George, a young Barbadian working on the Panama Canal. This play is a lovely slice of a New York gone by peopled with rich characters, endearing friendships, and true to life relationships.

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Moon Over Buffalo
Theatre '90

Price: $19 regular, $16 students/seniors, $12 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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God's Trombones
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $15 advance, $18 at door, $12 seniors with ID and groups of 20 or more, $5 for college students with ID and children 12 and under
South Presbyterian Church
Corner of W. Colvin and S. Salina Streets, Syracuse

God's Trombones, by James Weldon Johnson, is a spectacular compilation of seven Negro sermons in verse. Under the creative direction of William H. Rowland, Jackie Warren Moore, and Annette Adams-Brown this production will be a magnificent mixture of oration, song, dance and music. Local ministers from around the community will recite the opening prayer called Listen, Lord - A Prayer. Choral Director Lagreer Cummings will lead a mass Choir, made up of church choral members from across the Syracuse community, that will fill the sanctuary with joyous gospel songs, while prominent actors from the SU campus and Syracuse community engage and delight your senses with the remaining sermons; The Creation, The Prodigal Son, Go Down Death - A Funeral Sermon, Noah Built the Ark, The Crucifixion, Let my People Go, and Judgment Day through recitation, dramatization, narration and storytelling. The play will run approximately 1-1/2 hours.